Clowne’s Hair Superstar

Congratulations to the all-new Wella Professionals Generation NOW team

The super-talented six were selected via rigorous rounds of auditions and presentations, during which they were assessed by Wella Professionals and guest judges from the Industry.

The team will soon begin their year of inspirational experiences and top-notch training with an intensive bootcamp week, where they will be mentored by a team of leading industry experts (including Gary Gill, Kai Wan and Bruno Marc).

They will also gain insight into what it takes to make it to the very top of the hairdressing industry, receive media training, improve their product knowledge and be able to brush up on their presentation skills prior to a large presentation at the Wella Professionals TrendVision Award UK & Ireland Final, alongside working on a television show in 2017 and London fashion week.

Exciting News For New Bolsover

EXCITING NEWS FOR NEW BOLSOVER
Robert Woodhead Limited have been contracted to undertake the repair and restoration of New Bolsover Model Village.
As part of the project, training and work experience opportunities will also be available to local young people, with up to eight apprenticeships on offer, 10 positions for local trades people, a Tenant Liaison Officer and Admin Officer..
The project has been funded by approximately £8million from Bolsover District Council’s Housing Revenue Account, £1.9 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £40k from Derbyshire County Council. It is also being supported by Community Voluntary Partners, Derbyshire County Council Public Health, Community Regeneration Trust and Friends of New Bolsover.http://bit.ly/2ct0FX4

Musical Theatre Teacher Crowned Derbyshire’s Best Singer

MUSICAL THEATRE TEACHER BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE AND IS CROWNED DERBYSHIRE’S BEST SINGER

Georgina Bailey, a musical theatre teacher from Hollingwood, Chesterfield was awarded the title at the event held at the Proact Stadium, Chesterfield. The event, organised by local charity The Child Foundation, was a sell out. Georgii was up against 11 finalists in Friday’s contest and won with her song choice of I Know Where I’ve Been from the hit musical, Hairspray. Georgii wowed the panel of judges, which included local singing sensation Jessica Hobson, who has appeared as a semi-finalist on Britain’s Got Talent and also The Voice.

Georgii has won the opportunity to perform at a Chesterfield football game in front of 10,000 people, at a Sheffield Sharks basketball game to 1,300 people and a session in Positive Impulse recording studio.

Georgii, pictured left with runner-up Jessica Nash and third-placed April Parker, runs her own musical theatre and singing company, teaches at Wallace Dance Academy and has played lead roles with Chesterfield Operatic Society. She said “I feel amazed that I’ve won Derbyshire’s Best Singer. I entered because I was losing confidence in myself and I was worried I was losing confidence in my performing.” Georgii studied musical theatre at university in Newcastle and Hull and has just finished a PGCE with Derby University.

How Sleep and Dreaming affects our mental health

“What’s your sleep like?” is one of the first questions I ask my clients if they’ve come to see me with an issue relating to anxiety, stress or depression. They usually reply with one of two answers:

“Rubbish – I’ve never been good at sleeping. I can’t turn my brain off.”

“I can fall asleep ok, but I wake up after a few hours and can’t go back to sleep”

The next question I ask is “do you dream a lot?”, at which point they ruefully grin, nod and think I’m a mind reader, which would be awesome but sadly I’m not.

The need to sleep is well known to be a fundamental requirement for us to function. According to a 2010 study in the International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health after just 24 hours without sleep “judgment is affected, memory is impaired, there is deterioration in decision making, and a decline in eye-hand coordination,” Cralle says. “You’re more emotional, attention is decreased, hearing is impaired, and there is an increase in your risk of death from a fatal accident.”

So what does our sleep look like?

There are two very distinct kinds of sleep: REM (rapid eye movement sleep when we dream) and slow wave sleep. During REM sleep in basic terms our body muscles become paralysed and parts of our brain become highly aroused.

Slow wave sleep is the part of sleep where our body heals itself. The mind/body system rebuilds itself after a hard day surviving in the world. Importantly, in this period of sleep hormones are released to help repair wear and tear in tissues and muscles and our immune system is boosted. Additionally, and really importantly the glial cells in our brain are replenished with sugars. This restores the brain with our motivational energy for the next day.

In total contrast REM sleep consumes large amounts of the brain’s energy reserves which are used for dreaming. REM sleep occupies about a quarter of a healthy adult’s sleep time and on a scan the brain pattern while dreaming looks very similar to our brain pattern when we’re awake.

What does dream sleep do for us?

We all dream for about two hours a night, even though we often don’t recall having done so when we wake up the next morning. The latest scientific evidence shows that dreaming exists to act out and discharge any emotional arousal from the day before. So for example your boss was being a jerk but you couldn’t tell him, or a car cut you up and you couldn’t swear and scream loudly as your child was in the back. All of the stuff that you had to suppress.

Interestingly the emotion that you expressed and vented during the day is not part of this – the huge row with your partner for bringing home Chinese takeaway instead of Indian for example (How dare they? You’d fancied curry all day). In terms of emotional arousal this was discharged by the argument, not pent up.

The evidence shows that the reason we dream is to discharge the emotional arousal of the previous day to free up our brain to deal with the next day.

What does this have to do with depression, anxiety and stress?

In depression particularly, but also in anxious and stressed people, the sleep process goes dramatically wrong. Instead of having about 25% REM sleep and 75% slow wave sleep (which boosts energy levels in the brain), these proportions switch round, so that the depressed person has far too much REM sleep and too little slow wave sleep. There’s a simple reason for this.

Depressed, anxious and stressed people tend to spend a LOT of time worrying and introspecting. This leads to much higher emotional arousal levels and therefore a greater need for this to be discharged during dreaming. The first period of REM sleep occurs much earlier and lasts much longer in depressed people, because the pressure for discharge is so great.

However, so much time spent in dream sleep means that the brain is receiving much less ‘down time’ in slow wave sleep. This means that the brain is working throughout much of the night and therefore waking up exhausted. It also means that the time spent healing the body and refilling the glial cells is significantly reduced, leaving depressed and anxious people frequently waking up feeling exhausted and lacking motivation. This then begins to create yet another issue for them to worry about and therefore helps keep this unhelpful cycle in place.

So what needs to change?

The main task in any work with depression and anxiety is to lower emotional arousal and help people to stop their worrying and introspection as quickly as possible. This will begin to switch the sleep cycle back towards a healthy pattern, which has a huge knock on effect with our energy levels, mood and emotions.

I work by using behavioural, cognitive and interpersonal approaches with relaxation and visualisation techniques, to motivate people to widen their life view, raise their self-esteem and solve problems. I work with clients giving practical guidance for breaking problems down into manageable chunks and focusing forwards and outwards on solving the problem, not worrying about what started it in the first place (though sometimes it can be helpful to know). I set practical ‘homework’ and give strategies and agree goals to get to where they want to be. Clients leave sessions having clear goals and plans in place to put into practice before our next meeting.

I use the client’s imagination in guided imagery or hypnotherapy to help them vividly see themselves making the changes they need to make in order to overcome their difficulties. This works on the time honoured principle that the human brain tries to bring about what it focuses on.

More information

You can find out more information about me on my website or connect with me on social media:

For more information around the topic of sleep and dreaming I highly recommend you look at Joe Griffins research and his work in creating the Human Givens institute. There is a wonderful free introductory webinar available here:

Roxy is a psychotherapist, coach and clinical hypnotherapist, with a private practice in Clowne, Chesterfield. She also creates and runs stress management and well-being courses for businesses and is a speaker at seminars and events. She sees clients both face to face in her office and increasingly worldwide using Skype. Her clients present with a wide range of issues including anxiety, stress, depression, panic attacks, phobias and addictions. Roxy is passionate about her work and much of her client base is now built through recommendations and referrals.

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From Scraps To Crops

Thousands of tonnes of food and garden waste will be kept out of landfill now Derbyshire County Council’s new £6.65 million composting centre is up and running.

The first batches of waste collected from up to 128,000 households by Chesterfield Borough, Bolsover District and North East Derbyshire District councils have arrived at the state-of-the art facility in Arkwright.

And now the waste is being turned into compost to be sold as a soil improver for use in farming and agriculture.

Councillor Joan Dixon, Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Jobs, Economy and Transport, said: “Sending waste to landfill is expensive. The county council is facing budget cuts of £157 million by 2018 and with landfill tax currently set at £80 per tonne, landfill is a cost we just can’t afford in the future.

“This new facility will allow us to manage the cost of dealing with the county’s waste more effectively in the future by helping to protect against further landfill price increases.

“Residents can help by making sure they put as much food and garden waste as possible into their green waste bin ready to be taken to the new site.”

Andrew Ives, regional manager from SITA UK – the recycling and waste management company running the site on behalf of the county council, said: “We’re delighted this project is up and running. It will make life much easier for residents who can now put their food waste in with their garden waste, so it can be put to good use as compost, rather than being landfilled.”

Up to 40,000 tonnes of food and garden waste is expected to be taken to the composting facility every year. It takes around eight to 10 weeks for the waste to be turned into compost at the facility using “in-vessel” technology.

Items including garden trimmings, fruit, vegetable, meat and fish waste are shredded and placed into sealed chambers to be sterilized. Air is forced through the waste to heat it up to 60 degrees centigrade for a minimum of 48 hours to destroy any harmful bacteria which may be present. Once this process is complete, the waste is moved to a second set of chambers where air is forced through the material again to speed up the composting process. Finally, the material is moved to an enclosed ‘maturation’ area where air continues to be passed through it to complete the composting process. The compost is moved into an enclosed processing area where it is screened for quality and then loaded on to vehicles ready to be dispatched.

The facility has brought more jobs to the area with seven full time equivalent posts.

Autosupplies Wins Factor of the Year

Autosupplies (Chesterfield) Ltd, has picked up the accolade of Motor Factor of the Year at the Motor Trader Awards 2016.

The result was announced at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on 13 July, with the black tie event featuring 26 award categories and welcoming more than 1000 guests to celebrate top achievers and innovative companies within the automotive industry.

The criteria to win the award is extensive and requires each finalist to answer an in-depth questionnaire and then present to a judge who visits the business, before the judging panel makes a final decision.

The distributor’s success at the renowned awards ceremony is a reflection of its continued growth since the business began in 1989.

Autosupplies managing director, David Clarke, said: “This is fantastic recognition for the hard work the entire team at Autosupplies carries out throughout the year and the systems we have in place to deliver high levels of customer service. I’m delighted to receive such a prestigious award and would like to thank everyone at the company – and our customers – who have played a part in helping us win this award.

“Looking ahead, we will explore new opportunities and continue to play a large role in the Chesterfield area as we acknowledge the importance of the local community which enables us to ensure customer requirements are always met and continue to thrive as a business.”

Its commitment to providing customers with a complete package encompassing reliable service and high quality products has enabled it to develop into a leading motor factor within the UK, and now employing over 80 members of staff and managing a fleet of more than 40 delivery vehicles, the motor factor is also one of the most prominent businesses in the Chesterfield area.

Autosupplies is heavily invested in the local community and recently sponsored the Scarcliffe Soapbox Derby that took place on 25 June by providing a team’s uniform, materials for their vehicle and taking on running costs, as well as sponsoring the official newsletter programme.

With the motor factor also maintaining close ties with a number of local schools by regularly supplying prizes for fundraisers, along with releasing members of staff to contribute towards ‘Industry Days’, teaching interview skills and providing essential business advice, Autosupplies is very much devoted to developing young members of the community.

Within the company, all members of staff have their own training plans, with a small nucleus of all young team members receiving an NVQ qualification, providing them with the appropriate skills to develop their career.

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